Natural History Museum shootout

The National History Museum shootout was a massive shootout that occurred at New York City's National History Museum in the spring of 2008. The Pegorino crime family and the Jewish Mob agreed to a diamond deal in the museum while it was closed, with the Pegorinos bringing $2,000,000 worth of diamonds (formerly belonging to Tony Prince and Ray Bulgarin before him) and the Jewish mobsters bringing the money. Niko Bellic and Johnny Klebitz were about to collect the cash when Luis Fernando Lopez, one of Prince's associates, ambushed the deal by killing Mori Green and two Jewish mobsters. Klebitz fled with the cash, Lopez fled with the diamonds, and Bellic fled empty-handed, and the three men had to fight their way out of a shootout between the Jewish and Italian mobsters, who believed that the opposite gang had set them up. The shootout left dozens dead, and it would lead to the Irish Mob kidnapping Prince's friend Gracie Ancelotti in hopes of retrieving the diamonds for their Pegorino family bosses; it would also lead to the murder of the Jewish mob boss Isaac Roth by Bellic in the Majestic Hotel shootout.